JEE Mathematics Advanced Topics
Complex Numbers — JEE Advanced Level
BASICS:
i = √(-1) | i² = -1 | i³ = -i | i⁴ = 1
z = a + ib | |z| = √(a²+b²) | arg(z) = tan⁻¹(b/a)
Conjugate: z̄ = a - ib | |z|² = z·z̄
ARGAND PLANE GEOMETRY:
|z - z₁| = |z - z₂|: perpendicular bisector of segment z₁z₂
|z - z₁| = r: circle with centre z₁ and radius r
|z - z₁| + |z - z₂| = const > |z₁-z₂|: ellipse with foci z₁,z₂
DE MOIVRE'S THEOREM:
(cosθ + i sinθ)ⁿ = cos(nθ) + i sin(nθ)
Use for: nth roots, trigonometric expansions
CUBE ROOTS OF UNITY:
1, ω, ω² where ω = e^(2πi/3) = (-1+i√3)/2
Properties: 1 + ω + ω² = 0 | ω³ = 1 | |ω| = 1
Probability at JEE Advanced Level
CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY:
P(A|B) = P(A∩B)/P(B) where P(B) ≠ 0
BAYES' THEOREM:
P(Aᵢ|B) = P(B|Aᵢ)P(Aᵢ) / Σ[P(B|Aⱼ)P(Aⱼ)]
Use when: finding which event caused observed outcome
RANDOM VARIABLES:
E(X) = Σ xᵢP(xᵢ) | Var(X) = E(X²) - [E(X)]²
BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION:
X ~ B(n,p): P(X=r) = ⁿCᵣ pʳ (1-p)^(n-r)
E(X) = np | Var(X) = np(1-p)
IMPORTANT JEE PROBLEM TYPES:
Cards/balls: without replacement = decreasing total
Geometric probability: ratio of favourable region to total region
Conditional: check if events are mutually exclusive vs independent
Multinomial: distributing unlike/like objects into groups
Vectors and 3D Geometry
VECTORS:
Dot product: a·b = |a||b|cosθ = a₁b₁+a₂b₂+a₃b₃
Cross product: |a×b| = |a||b|sinθ (magnitude = area of parallelogram)
Triple product: a·(b×c) = volume of parallelepiped
3D GEOMETRY:
Line through point (x₁,y₁,z₁) with direction (a,b,c):
(x-x₁)/a = (y-y₁)/b = (z-z₁)/c
Plane ax+by+cz+d = 0:
Distance from (x₁,y₁,z₁): |ax₁+by₁+cz₁+d|/√(a²+b²+c²)
Normal vector: (a,b,c)
Angle between line and plane:
sin θ = |l·n|/(|l||n|) where l = direction of line, n = normal to plane
Shortest distance between skew lines:
SD = |(b₁-a₁)·(d₁×d₂)| / |d₁×d₂|
Study Resources
•A Dasgupta Coordinate Geometry — advanced concepts for JEE Advanced
•Hall and Knight Higher Algebra — for advanced algebra topics
•JEE Advanced 2020-2024 Mathematics papers — do all, understand each solution
•Vedantu JEE Advanced Maths — detailed conceptual videos